A Photo collection of Proficient Motors.
These were the first and last almost 100% made in Pakistan vehicles. Every component, nut bolt, chassis and engine were made in Pakistan. Only the Window glass and some electric components such as spark plugs were imported. The total count of made in Pakistan components overall was 95%.
The brain child of a Karachiite engineer Khalil-Ur-Rehman.
Mr. Khalil practically started the Design, Development process to manufacture Indigenous Automobile with the titles of Winmark International (Pvt.) Ltd and sister concern S.K Rahman & co.(Pvt.) Ltd. Successfully introduced the First Pakistani Automobile “PROFICIENT” without any foreign technical assistance with the help of his sons in 1986, which were examined and approved by many national & international authorities & organizations viz Pakistan Army, World Bank Delegation, Technical Expert Team of General Motors USA, Japanese Expert Team, Pakistan Standard Institution and many others. The Local contents of these automobiles were about 95%. But in consequences of extreme non cooperation and imposition of various trade barriers by wasted interest in Govt. departments the project was closed down. Mr. Khalil pass away in 1993 with the broken heart.
Main reason of project failure was Benazir Government and Mr. zardari. They refused Proficient vehicles license to mass produce. The poor innovator and owner Mr. khalil had to go in hiding as he had no way of doing any further business and had too many business loans to pay off.
